Interstate Communications Expressway All Roads Lead to Safety

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Interstate Communications ExpresswayAll Roads
Lead to Safety

• NIUSR Proposal

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Problem?

• Lack of interconnected/consistent communications
  system
• Many systems inaccessible, antiquated, stagnant
• No collaboration or coordination
• No common link for all stakeholders
• Inability to handle cross-jurisdictional
  incidents
• No warning on location of area or need
• 280 million people at risk

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Interstate Highway Model
Artist's conception of an interstate highway with
at-grade crossings on a 4-lane highway designed
in conformity with the standards approved in
1945.

• Interstate Highways created National standard
• Formally The Dwight D. Eisenhower System of
  Interstate and Defense Highways
• 42,796 mile system (48 contiguous states, AK, HI,
  PR, and D.C.)
• carries 21 of traffic on only 1 of all total
  road street mileage
• Fed govt authorizes highway numbers, design
  criteria, funding ratios
• Financed by the Federal Highway Trust Fund
• From dirt paths to Superhighways
• Limited access ? unlimited access

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SOLUTION Interstate Communications Expressway

• NAME is IMPORTANT
• Interstate Communications Expressway, not
  Federal or National
• Transport VITAL information in the way that
  Interstate Highways transport goods and people
• National Communications System
• For emergency communications
• Public Health Notification System (Public Health
  Network)
• Built w/Federal , but State and Local Govts
  build on-ramps
• Fosters cooperation at Federal, State and Local
  levels
• Positive economic force
• The interstate system has had a profound
  influence on the life of virtually every
  American, returning more than 6 in economic
  productivity for each 1 it cost to construct,
  reducing the traffic fatality rate, and changing
  urban/suburban development and commuting patterns.

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A System for Transportation of Information -

• "Together, the united forces of our communication
  and transportation systems are dynamic elements
  in the very name we bear - United States. Without
  them, we would be a mere alliance of many
  separate parts." - President Dwight D.
  Eisenhower, Feb. 22, 1955

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Requirements

• Ubiquitous, resilient access
• Speed of deployment and cost effectiveness
• Open architecture
• Standards-based
• Secure
• Ease of use/Ease of Support
• Exchange information with variety of sources
• Cooperation / guidance
• Federally maintained/funded
• Incentive to State and Local levels

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Interstate Communications Expressway
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Legend
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Solution to bridge a gap

• Working examples out there
• JNET, CrimNet
• DERIS
• Red Cross Disaster Services
• National 2-1-1

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NIUSR Experience

• NIUSR brings
• Experience
• DERIS demo, XII
• Partnership
• N-CORE (50 participating organizations,
  agencies)
• Honest-Broker
• Non-profit Think Tank

"NIUSR is a key organization with the technical
resources and experience that can help integrate
communications with Federal, State and local
agencies. We look forward to working with you in
the future. General Ralph E. Eberhart
(Commander in Chief, North American Aerospace
Defense Command, and Commander, U.S. Northern
Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.)
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Backup Slides
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JNET Model

• Pennsylvania's Justice Network (JNET)
• Started in 1995, Gov. Tom Ridge created an
  initiative that provided law enforcement with new
  ways to combat crime.
• May 1997, Ridge allocated 11 million to begin
  building JNET and to create the JNET Steering
  Committee
• JNET helped the FBI identify and locate potential
  suspects from United Airlines Flight 93, which
  went down in western Pennsylvania.
• JNET users
• - includes several federal agencies - 17
  state agencies, 20 counties, Philadelphia and
  Pittsburgh, and a handful of smaller
  municipalities. - Approximately 3,200
  individuals are using JNET 300 of which are on
  the municipal level JNET expects to have 5,000
  users by the EO-2002

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JNET Architecture

• Industry Standards
• Using open Internet/WWW technologies and
  standards, the JNET System links information from
  diverse hardware/software platforms under a
  common, web-browser interface.
• PUB/SUB
• Each participating agency controls what
  information it shares and who is authorized to
  see it.
• Security
• Network firewalls, secure communication
  protocols, data encryption, and authentication
  based on digital signatures and certificates
  protect information on the JNET System from
  unauthorized access.

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American Red Cross Mobility for Disaster
Services Communications

• Mobile infrastructure for critical voice data
  communications to Red Cross workers deployed to
  disaster sites
• Disaster Services can achieve true mobility with
  critical communications using
• IP connectivity provided by Satellite
• IP Telephony
• IP data
• Wireless LANs

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The 1st Interstate Highway